Perforated music-sheet with guarded fastening device.



PATENTED SEPT. 13; 1904.

B. R. PERKINS. PERPORATED MUSIC SHEET WITH GUARDBD FASTENING DEVICE.

APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 9.1904.

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UNITED STATES Patented September 13, 1904.

PATENT OEEIcE.

EDWARD R. PERKINS, OEWESTFIELD, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO THE EOLIAN COMPANY, OF NEl/V YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF CON- NECTICUT.

PERFORATED MUSIC-SHEET WITH GUARDED FASTENING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 770,103, dated September 13, 1904.

Application filed June 9, 1904. Serial No. 211,825. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD R. PERKINS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Westfield, in the county of Union and State of New Jersey, have invented new and useful Improvements in Perforated Music-Sheets with Guarded Fastening Devices, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in perforated music-sheets, and has for its object to so arrange the fastening device for the end of the music-sheet that it will be guarded to prevent the scratching or marring of the casing of the instrument in which the musicsheet is used during the manipulation of the music-sheet in the ordinary manner of playing therewith in actual operation.

To the end stated my invention consists in a perforated music-sheet possessing the features hereinafter described and claimed, reference being made to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a view of a music-roll with the perforated sheet thereon, the extremities thereof being partly withdrawn from the roll. Fig. 2 is a sectional view showing the sheet of paper and the music and take-up rolls, illustrating in dotted lines the path of movement of the ends of the sheet after it 3 slips engagement with the take-up roll in being rewound. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail sectional view of the end of the music-sheet.

In the said drawings the reference-numeral 1 designates the perforated music-sheet provided at its end or extremity with a fastening device 2, which may be of any suitable type, that shown being a ring secured thereto by means of a loop 3, glued or cemented to the paper.

' In the use of mechanical music-sheets in mechanical musical instruments or instrument-players one end of the sheet is attached to what is termed the take-up roll, which is designated by the reference-numeral 4. in the drawings, the fastening device taking over a suitable pin 1, whereby upon rotation of said roll the paper is wound thereupon in the process of playing a piece of music with which the sheet is perforated. After the piece of music has been played the sheet is unwound from the take-off roll and rewound upon what is termed the music-roll, (designated by the numeral 5 in the drawings.)

The operation of rerolling or rewinding a music-sheet from the take-off roll onto the music-roll is accomplished with very great speed, and it has been found that frequently as the fastening device 2 slips out of engagement with the pin 4 the velocity of the paper causes the end thereof to fly up and the fastening device to violently strike against and scratch or mar the casing of the instrument. This serious objection is overcome by my invention, according to which the fastening device is associated with the music-sheet in such manner that it is guarded or covered to prevent possibility of the occurrence of the difficulty referred to. This is accomplished in the preferred and illustrated example of my invention by providing a guard-strip or protector 6, which when the end of the paper flies up, because of the velocity with which it is being rerolled, and after it has left engagement with the take-off roll prevents the fastening device from coming into contact with the casing of the instrument, such guardstrip or protector being connected to the music-sheet and having a free end lying along the appropriate side of the fastening device to accomplish this purpose. In the example of my invention shown in the drawings the guard-strip or protector/6 is composed of a piece of fine or soft leather or textile fabric which will not in any wise scratch, mar, or injure the casing. The guard will come between the fastening device and the casing of the instrument in the circumstances above set forth and effectually prevent the fastening device from coming in contact with the casing, and thus prevent the possibility of the marring and scratching of the casing thereby.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is The combination with a perforated musicsheet of a fastening device connected to said In testimony whereof I have hereunto set music-sheet, and a guard or protector conmy hand in presence of tWo subscrlbing Witnected to sald sheet and overlying and covernesses.

ing said fastening device, in such manner as EDWARD R. PERKINS. 5 to prevent said device from coming in contact Vitnesses:

With the case of the instrument in which the E. (l THOMPSON,

music-sheet is used. W. G. lVIANSFIELDi 

